NumbersUSA

NumbersUSA notes that its goals are to "examine numerical levels of annual legal and illegal immigration" and to "educate the public about the immigration-reduction recommendations."

Founded in 1997 by Roy Beck.

Staff
Source
 * Roy Beck - Executive Director
 * Anne Manetas - Deputy Director
 * Rosemary Jenks - Director, Government Relations
 * Jim Robb - Director of Technology / Director of Membership Development
 * Van Esser - Chief of Membership Services
 * Mark Wills - Chief Legislative Analyst
 * Caroline Espinosa - Media Coordinator

Board
Accessed September 2010:


 * C. Gary Gerst - chair
 * Marti Dinerstein
 * Don Weeden
 * Roy H. Beck

Advisors and Other Experts
Population and Sprawl Data
 * U.S. Bureau of the Census
 * U.S. Department of Agriculture
 * Natural Resources Conservation Service

Congressional Voting Records and Legislative Descriptions
 * Library of Congress, Congressional Record, and U.S. House and U.S. Senate websites
 * Rosemary Jenks, J.D. Harvard Law School

Immigration Data

 * Immigration and Naturalization Service
 * U.S. Bureau of the Census
 * Vernon Briggs, Jr.

Federal Commissions

 * Leon Bouvier
 * Lindsay Grant

Analysis of Sprawl Urban Planning Oversight
 * Earl M. Starnes
 * Eben Fodor
 * Gabor Zovanyi
 * Ruth Steiner

Statistical Oversight

 * Alan J. Truelove
 * Ben Zuckerman
 * David Simcox
 * Dick Schneider
 * Leon Bouvier
 * Mark C. Thies
 * Marshall Cohen, Ph.D., professor emeritus of astronomy, California Institute of Technology
 * Paul Nachman, Ph.D., physicist
 * Scott Briles, Ph.D., engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California
 * Steven A. Camarota, Ph.D., public policy analyst
 * William E. Murray, Jr., Ph.D., physicist
 * Michael J. Mueller, Ph.D., natural resource economist

Environmental and General Oversight

 * Albert Bartlett, Ph.D., professor emeritus of physics, University of Colorado
 * Betty B. Davis, Ph.D., psychologist
 * Bill Smith, Ph.D., dean, College of Global Economics, EarthNet Institute
 * Craig Diamond, adjunct faculty, environmental studies, Florida State University; technical advisor to the Sierra Club carrying capacity campaign
 * David Pimentel, Ph.D., professor of ecology and agricultural sciences, Cornell University
 * Diana Hull, Ph.D., behavioral scientist, retired, Baylor College of Medicine
 * Edward G. Di Bella, adjunct faculty, Grossmont Community College (CA); president, Friends of Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve
 * George Wolford, Ph.D., president, EarthNet Institute
 * Herbert Berry, Ph.D., retired associate professor of computer information systems, Morehead State University (KY)
 * James G. McDonald, attorney, civil engineer
 * Jeffrey Jacobs, Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences
 * John Bermingham, former Colorado state senator
 * John Rohe, attorney; board, Conservation News Service
 * Linda Thom, retired government budget analyst, Santa Barbara County (CA)
 * Michael Hanauer, member, Vision 2020, growth management project of Lexington, (MA)
 * Ross McCluney, Ph.D., principal research scientist, Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida
 * Steve Miller, former Las Vegas councilman, Clark County (NV) Regional Transportation Commissioner
 * Stuart Hurlbert, Ph.D., professor of biology, San Diego State University
 * Terry Paulson, Mayor Pro-tem, Aspen (CO) City Council
 * Tom Reitter, Livermore (CA) City Council

Economics
"Most economics information on this website either is taken directly from government data, has been analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (a Washington-based think tank), was edited by W.W. Norton & Company (the prestigious New York publisher), or was reviewed by labor economist Vernon Briggs of Cornell University. In most cases, citations are provided to allow you to do your own checking.

Environmental
"Contributing, reviewing or endorsing various parts of the website that deal with the role of U.S. population growth and environmental issues are: Source
 * Leon Kolankiewicz
 * Douglas La Follette
 * Gaylord Nelson (1916 - 2005)
 * Stuart Hurlbert

Criticism

 * Alfredo Martin Bravo de Rueda Espejo, “The charming racism of NumbersUSA,” Daily Kos, June 6, 2009.

Contact

 * Web: http://www.numbersusa.com

Related SourceWatch Article

 * Donald E. Weeden